Thread: lucid dreams and hormones

I do hope you experience them again. I read that it's a common method for dealing with nightmares.

Many people will tell you the right attitude can make a difference. I tend to agree. Knowing that you are going to lucid dream and staying in that positive frame-of-mind could be influential and might make the difference.

I recently took the Intro Class in the DVA section of the forum. I figured that I never really had structure to my LDs and perhaps it might help. I must say the efforts paid off. Combining a daily effort to write down my dreams in as much detail as possible with my erratic sleep schedule allowed me to have some impressive lucid dreams. It forced me to pay attention to the details in both my waking life and my dreams, and I spent some considerable time thinking about the common elements that regularly appear in my dreams that stand out as unusual (Dream Signs). When I see something odd yet familar (like taking a test in my old elementary school) it frequently triggers lucidity because I know I'm 39 and I've been out of school for many years.

Examining the dreams you remember for odd similarities and writing them down can help you recognize the signs in the actual dream, and with luck you will achieve lucidity, even if it's only a brief period without control.

I don't know if you keep a dream journal but if you really want to give this your full energy I would suggest writing down every dream you have in as much detail as possible and then report back in two weeks. From there we can begin to look at your ability to recall dreams and what you might recognize as out-of-place.

Send me a PM if you want to talk directly.

I don't have periods anymore because I have gone through menopause. I also don't have lucid dreams anymore even though I have very vivid dreams. I wake up many times thinking "I missed my chance" because I've had a dream where I should have recognized dream signs. Could be I'm just out of practice now but I used to lucid dream quite easily.

For years I thought I was the only person in the world who did this....and then along came the internet and lo and behold

Sorry for reposting that answer but I rarely visit this site anymore and didn't see my previous answer. I spent several years keeping dream journals and it does work.

It also took the fun out of lucid dreaming for me. Too many people around here concentrate on the technique instead of just letting it happen. So I went back to what used to work for me. I probably should keep dream journals again but I have too much fun just dreaming even if they aren't lucid.

And yes, lucid dreams are useful for nightmares. It is how I learned to lucid dream. I was a child that had nightmares almost every night so my mom taught me to master my dreams and it worked. I had my first lucid dream in the 3rd. grade and I learned to walk my way out of nightmares using various tricks along the way.

I had my first lucid dream in a year and a half last night. Just thought I would throw that out there. We'll see what happens.